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I stole a garage!

Don’t tell anyone but I stole a garage and it’s proving to be very useful.

We have one garage as part of our premises and M uses it. The other one is supposed to be used by the apartment upstairs but as that’s empty the garage has been used as a repository for spare furniture by the owners so throughout the last winter I spent my mornings digging a path to the exposed car and then working away with the snow-brush and ice-scraper before I could get away.

A couple of weeks ago all the crappy furniture vanished and was replaced by a broken dishwasher and some paving slabs. I quickly re-evaluated the garage space now available and decided that with a little reorganisation we might just be able to create a Passat sized hole. As I have a Passat and it had started to snow, this was quite an exciting possibility. I applied myself to junk-shuffling and before you could say “stop thief!” my car was nestling alongside M’s in the luxury of a warm and snow-free parking space.

It’s a small thing and no doubt it won’t last long but I’ll enjoy it while I can.

While I’m here, are any of you experts in identifying things by using footprints in the snow? If so, take a look at these tracks I found in the snow on the terrace today. I’m convinced it’s a six legged alien with long thin feet, but I could be wrong. It is certainly very weird.

8 thoughts on “I stole a garage!”

Those snow prints are intriguing! What time did you find them? Any more pics as the scale is difficult to read. The furthest right imprint appears to show three toes but can’t be sure at this enlargement if they’re imprints or loose snow.
Snow can slide off in slices but I assume there is no overhang. Perhaps some winged, frozen footed creature hopped along your terrace. Hmmmmm.

Ad – there is an overhang actually and that was my first thought but these were also in places where there isn’t one. They are also at strange angles for it to be falling off the edge of the upstairs terrace. Scale – they were roughly a foot long.